Test Drive #22

[godsoffortune]

TEST DRIVE # 22



Whether you're trying to figure out how your character would fare in this setting, trying to get some samples together, or just dipping your toes in the water, you've come to the right place! The Test Drive is here to make your life easy by letting you see what the game is like without actually joining it first. So here is how it works:

1: Post a starter with your character, including whether they are a god or shinki in the subject line.
2: Act like your character is established enough in the setting to allow your thread to go places.
3: Take on any god/shinki of your choosing, as long as they're not already in the game!
4: Comment around to the other people on the meme.
5: Have lots of fun!

To get you started, here are some ideas for thread-starters! Feel free to come up with your own ideas if these don't strike your fancy, though.



Buttered Buns

Things are tough for small bakeries in huge cities. It seems like there’s always a bigger chain offering less expensive breads around the corner. To compete, “Four Clover” bakery has gone all-in with a campaign to attract customers, and you’re here to help. They’ve put together a mascot costume for you (degree of cuteness up to player’s imagination), printed a zillion flyers, blown up bunches of balloons… and in praying for the success and prosperity of their store, they’ll certainly go along with whatever heaven-sent ideas come along.

Copious Copies

Outdoor art exhibitions take advantage of the best days of the start of fall. In one large park, a multitude of unique bronze and ceramic statues are on display. However, there’s way more of them than there actually should be. The artist and organizers are stumped by a plethora of near-perfect copies standing alongside the originals. Should a god or shinki get close enough they’ll be able to tell which are ayakashi pretending to be statues, but don’t get your nose bitten off. And don’t break an actual statue while hunting the ayakashi. Please.

Debt Diversion

Formula car races are huge draws for those who love speed, and those who love betting. Snake skeleton ayakashi are twining themselves around the necks of betters, whispering in their ears to seduce the humans into crippling debt.
While gods and shinki are in a human’s blind spot and generally go unnoticed, trying to remove an ayakashi from someone might draw attention, depending on how you go about it. And in a crowd this large, there just might be a human who will notice a strange pair trying to do something to someone else’s neck...

ESP and Extraterrestrials

A group approaches you. Some of them look relatively normal, if a bit on edge. Some of them look the very image of a nerd. And all of them are looking at you intently. This group of searchers of the paranormal have somehow (accurately) honed in on you, and are intent to find out everything about you. What planet are you from? What’s up with those clothes? That hair? Do you have any special powers?!
While they welcome you in peace, they are also very unwilling to let this interview end with your escape… Might need a friend to help you out (or throw you to the wolves).


Fashionable Frills

Fashion runway. Frills. Shirts, pants, dresses, underwear; the changing room is full of variety.
Go strut your stuff.
It’s for a good cause, honest.





If you're uncertain about anything, feel free to check out the Premise, Rules, and FAQ posts. And don't hesitate to ask any questions you might have on the FAQ!
When and if you're ready to join the game, check out the Taken Characters before throwing in a Reserve and starting on your Application
Have fun!

Comments

[farseen]

But-- but--!!

[But that was the opposite of what he wanted, fair stranger! What if he didn't want to be seen?!]

[priforprince]

[ Hibiki smirks, verrrry pleased with herself. Then, she turns and begins selecting clothing - mostly pale colors, so as not to drown out his hair.

Aaaand there we go. ] Now, come. To the dawn of your revolution.

[ She offers him a hand. ]

[farseen]

[His hair would stand out regardless of what he wore-- it was obvious that he preferred darker colors, but the lighter colored fabric and his exceedingly fair complexion combined to make a bold statement with his closely cropped sky-blue hair. The frills and flowing pieces of fabric that adorned his body, however, left him shaking with uncertainty.

After all, he didn't want to start a revolution.]

...There's too many people.

[He said, shying away from the door and the sheer number of warm bodies he saw beyond the wall. It was overwhelming. He wanted to hide in the back like he always did.]

[priforprince]

A discerning model, I see. Don't worry.

[ Hibiki smiles. She has such good news for you. Why, hearing it upon her arrival here certainly made her day. ] Only experts in the field received an invitation. It's an exclusive, top-quality audience.

[ As befits such splendid attire. She gestures with that outstretched hand again. ] Now....

[farseen]

Ah... um...

[While it appeared that he didn't have a choice in the matter, Shin-Ah still wasn't quite content to go. Even a small audience meant being the center of attention for more people than he knew how to deal with-- and, without someone beside him, he didn't know what to do to appeal to the crowd that this person was speaking about.

Flustered and at a loss for words, Shin-Ah did the one thing he knew how to do:

He abruptly turned toward the wall and buried his face in his hands.]

[priforprince]

[ A vein throbs in Hibiki's temple. Her hand remains outstretched, as she might have forgotten it was out there. ]

Oi!

[ You're getting all her best lines and then - this?!

What is with this unbelievably impossible and inconvenient situation!? ]

[farseen]

[Some people simply weren't made for the stage, Hibiki. Even if they looked the part.

Shin-Ah didn't move or didn't make a sound from his corner. He merely shuddered in silence-- for this woman was terrifying.]

[priforprince]

[ Hibiki is beside herself. Not the least because she doesn't understand what's going on here. That, in and of itself, is an impossibility.

She is a genius, you see. She understands everything. ]

Didn't you sign on for this!? A model who won't go onstage - it's unthinkable! The purpose is completely defeated!

[ There is only one thing to do: ]

I demand to see your manager!

[ COMPLAIN ABOUT IT. ]

[farseen]

Ma-manager?

[Shin-Ah, from his ball in the corner, shuddered fretfully at this and emphatically shook his head.]

But, I don't--!!

[He didn't have a manager. He didn't even sign up for this! Oh gods above, please have mercy!]

[priforprince]

[ He doesn't have a manager?! It's almost like -

Almost as if - ]

Aren't you a model?!

[ She is still asking this as a hypothetical question. ]

[farseen]

[Silently, he shook his head.

No, he wasn't a model. He was just a hapless Shinki who was dragged in from off of the streets because of his strikingly otherworldly looks.]

[priforprince]

YOU'RE NOT?!

[ On the one hand, that explains everything!

On the other hand, she's been tricked into complicity with doing something stupid! ]

[farseen]

[Alarmed by the sudden shriek of dismay, Shin-Ah buried his face into his hands and huddled further into his corner, visibly shaking from his toes to the very tips of his closely shorn (and vibrant cerulean) hair.

Please, stranger. Stop being mean and save him!]

[priforprince]

Who could have made such a ludicrous error....?!

[ "Isn't the model ready yet? It's almost time!" ]

Hngh....

[ If no model takes the stage, this show probably fails. Any show that brings in amateurs of this level of incompetence probably deserves to fail.

But.

Hibiki really likes the clothes.

She sniffs. ]

Very well! I'll take your place, so just change out of those quickly!

[ And stop shaking! You look ridiculous, shaking in fear in public!

Who does that!? ]